J. D. Salinger Quotes

But the enemy has the move, and he is about to open his full game. And pawns are as likely to see as much of it as any. Sharpen your blade!

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.

Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game

Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win.

For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the man legally, or to move the King.

The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.

The Berlin Defence suited my strategy for the match. I had a defensive strategy - Actually, I had in my pocket some other sharper stuff to fall back on - but first I wanted to try the defensive strategy with Black and it worked so well.

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.

The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.

War strategy is always unique. It is like a chess game. The pieces are always the same but each game is unique

If you're playing against an aggressive side, you need to play an aggressive game.

There's two sides to the game, and you have to do the ugly side as well. If you're getting beat, and you're conceding the goals that we're getting beaten by, then it's because you're not defending and shutting people down well enough.

I see myself used in terms of reading mismatches. If it's small, go inside. If it's big, come outside. And if it's in between, then work him, make him think you're going outside, go back inside. Just play chess.

When you see the floor and you understand the game and you're trying to break it down with what you have in front of you, you can do it offensively and defensively. And you try to take advantage of it both ways. You see where the offense's head is and you can kind of read what you want to do.

The very idea of how chess players manipulate their game excites me.

We are studying the opponent all the time and it is maybe about chess and finding the right move at the right moment and that makes this so interesting.

If he's averaging 25 points and I can contain him to 17, then I've won the battle. If he averages 12 assists and I kept him to seven, I'm winning the game.

The most dangerous area is the centre, which has to be either attacked or defended in football, and it's the same in chess.